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By Rachael Levy WSJ Fri., May 10, 2019 LAS VEGAS—Daniel Loeb was once a featured speaker at a Las Vegas event considered a staple of the hedge-fund circuit. This year the billionaire manager didn’t show. The SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, known as SALT, is famous for attracting heavyweight investors along with celebrities and politicians. But a number of hedge-fund stars such as Ken Griffin, Steve Cohen and Paul Singer were missing this year from the halls of the Bellagio after speaking or attending in the past, according to event organizers. A prominent hedge-fund investor who was scheduled to speak, Avenue Capital co-founder Marc Lasry, dropped out before the conference started. Mr. Lasry, an owner of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team, said he watched the team play in the NBA playoffs instead. Conference organizer Anthony Scaramucci said SALT has evolved from “purely a hedge fund conference to a broader alternative investments … [Read more...] about Hedge Funds No Longer Stars of Their Flashiest Conference

Richard Feloni, provided by Published 8:11 am PDT, Monday, April 8, 2019 Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund. In a new essay he called for the reform of capitalism, arguing that if the US does not redistribute wealth and opportunity, the country's existence as a stable global power is threatened. He said the US needs leadership that will declare inequality a national emergency. This article is part of Business Insider's ongoing series on Better Capitalism. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. As the 2020 presidential race heats up in the United States, Democratic candidates like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are calling for an overhaul of America's economic and financial policies for the sake of the country's future. Also joining the conversation: hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio. Dalio is the founder and co-CIO of Bridgewater Associates, the Connecticut firm with $160 billion … [Read more...] about Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says ‘the American dream is lost’

Richard Feloni, provided by Published 2:35 pm CDT, Friday, April 5, 2019 Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund. In a new essay he called for the reform of capitalism, arguing that if the US does not redistribute wealth and opportunity, the country's existence as a stable global power is threatened. He said the US needs leadership that will declare inequality a national emergency. This article is part of Business Insider's ongoing series on Better Capitalism. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. As the 2020 presidential race heats up in the United States, Democratic candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are calling for an overhaul of America's economic and financial policies for the sake of the country's future. Also joining the conversation: hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio. Dalio is the founder and co-CIO of Bridgewater Associates, the Connecticut firm with $160 … [Read more...] about Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says the state of capitalism poses ‘an existential threat for the US’

Richard Feloni, provided by Published 4:35 pm CDT, Thursday, April 4, 2019 Getty Images / Roy Rochlin Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund. In a new essay, Dalio wrote that capitalism is failing the majority of Americans and has to be reformed because concentrated and restrained wealth does not benefit the overall economy and destabilizes society. Dalio called for leadership that declares inequality a national emergency and addresses it with steps such as increased taxes on the wealthy. This article is part of Business Insider's ongoing series on Better Capitalism. Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio is afraid that capitalism has become so broken that it's going to either be abandoned or left to continue as it is. Either scenario would be to the long-term detriment of the country, in his view. In a new LinkedIn post, Dalio analyzes the ways America's economy has been failing the majority of its citizens and places the current … [Read more...] about Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism is failing America, and we need to take 5 specific actions to save it

Trista Kelley, provided by Published 3:59 am CDT, Saturday, March 23, 2019 Nomura Bilal Hafeez says he's tapped into a lifestyle shift happening in the financial industry. The London-based Nomura currency analyst sends wellness newsletters — tips and tricks for shaping up, eating better, and maximizing brain and body potential. "I like to write on something other than the minutiae of markets." There's a lifestyle shift happening on trading floors. And Bilal Hafeez says he's tapped into it. Almost daily, the London-based Nomura currency analyst sends wellness newsletters — tips and tricks for shaping up, eating better, and maximizing brain and body potential. He somehow also manages to crunch data and crank out research reports at his day job. Hafeez's mailing list has swelled to more than 2,000 readers, not only in his office in London, but at banks and hedge funds in cities including New York, Geneva, Singapore, and Cupertino, California (he has at least … [Read more...] about Meet the London currency analyst who moonlights as a wellness guru to Wall Street hedge funds and bankers